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When it comes to your home furnishings, quality is often the number one thing people look for. If you are shopping for quality, you want the best quality available. Well-made, high-quality furniture is a worthwhile investment that can last for generations.
If you are looking for new furniture, you might be wondering which manufacturers have the best quality. If you are wanting the highest quality furniture but are unsure which brand has the style, quality, and brand legacy you are looking for, Furniture Fair can help.
In business for over 55 years, Furniture Fair carries some of the nation’s top-quality brands and provides a wide range of styles and quality levels. Read on to find out the five best quality furniture brands available at Furniture Fair and what makes a high-quality brand better.
Furniture Fair ranks quality on three tiers; good, better, and best. While all three tiers offer value and quality, the best tier prioritizes durable furniture designs manufactured to the highest standard of quality. Here are some of the measures that set the best quality furniture apart.
Modern manufacturers have developed many ways to build furniture at a lower cost, allowing savings to be passed on to the consumer. Composite materials, plywoods, and even cardboard are used to create useful and economical pieces.
However, despite all the innovations in materials for furniture, the best material for furniture frames is still solid wood. Best quality furniture brands use solid woods for a sofa, sectional, or dining table built to last if adequately cared for.
When building the best quality brand, quality construction and craftsmanship are critical essentials to ensuring that the standard of quality is maintained. Whether using state-of-the-art machines and technology or through old-fashioned, time-tested methods from the past, the best quality brands are built with the finest craftsmanship.
Many manufacturers use classic construction methods from Amish woodworkers to ensure that their designs will last. Other manufacturers use design methods developed during the arts and crafts movement, prioritizing quality over mass production.
On top of classic styles and methods, best quality brands also use modern technology to create pieces that are the best contemporary design and tried and tested methods from decades of experience.
When It comes to the top-of-the-line in furniture design, the details matter. Mass-produced furniture is designed to be efficient and affordable, but the best quality furniture doesn’t cut any corners, making for a sturdier, longer-lasting product.
Best quality furniture uses solid frame construction methods to reinforce potential weak points in areas like corners, edges, and cushions. Custom options also allow many customers to go into even more detail, creating a one-off piece or a whole matching set.
Materials can make or break a furniture design, and the best quality furniture spares no expense in getting the best materials. Whether through made-in-the-USA hardwoods, imported fabrics from high-quality textile mills, or even top-quality steel frames for mechanisms, the quality of the material will determine the quality of the recliner, accent chair, or home office desk.
Now that the standard for the best quality manufacturer has been set. Let’s take a look at the top five brands of quality available at Furniture Fair. We will rank them in order from one to five, with one being the leading tier brand.
The story of Stickley began with three words: Als Ik Kan — ”to the best of my ability.” This old Flemish craftsman’s phrase has been the guiding principle of Stickley since 1900. Gustav Stickley marked his product with the phrase to assure clients that Stickley furniture was of the finest quality, every piece made with honor, integrity, and pride.
Stickley is a brand brought out of the Arts and Crafts movement shortly after the Industrial Revolution. The furniture designed by Gustav and others was focused on building furniture for life, furniture that is passed down from generation to generation.
More than 90% of Stickley’s products are still made by craftsmen in New York and North Carolina workshops. Honesty and integrity of construction are essential tenets of Arts & Crafts furniture and traditional building methods.
Stickley products feature “overbuilt” construction methods including, Mortise and Tenon Joinery, Splining, Dovetailed Cross Rails, tongue and groove glue joints, pinned chair joints, ship lap planking, bracket foot construction, quadrilinear posts, and quarter rounds, just to name a few.
A large part of Stickley’s commitment to legacy is that every piece of high-quality heirloom furniture they manufacture is sourced and built in the United States. The heirloom-quality craftsmanship means that more care and oversight will go into the manufacturing process.
Stickley manufacturing uses luxurious 100% top-grain leather, stylish and durable fabric upholstery, and detailed hardwoods, all crafted from the design methods perfected during the arts and crafts movement.
Think of Stickley as “better than the best.” Stickley is the standard by which all top-quality brands are measured in quality, craftsmanship, and attention to detail. The Stickley brand is particularly sought after by antique dealers due to its high resale value.
Suppose you want quality that will outlast you, Craftsmanship built on centuries of knowledge, and materials sustainably sourced entirely within the United States. In that case, Stickley is the brand to beat all other brands.
Daniels Amish furniture is handcrafted in the USA. In north-central Ohio, Holmes County is home to the largest Amish community today, where the experience of generations of furniture makers has been handed down to today's skilled woodworkers.
This Heirloom furniture, constructed from sturdy North American hardwoods, is built to last a lifetime. Daniels Amish is so confident in their quality that they feature a limited lifetime warranty on significant essential components.
Daniel's Amish features custom furniture built with a nearly limitless selection of style, wood, finish, hardware, and size choices. Daniel's Amish bedroom furniture is proudly handcrafted by skilled Amish woodworkers using ages-old techniques to ensure it will last for years to come.
Bedroom furniture from Daniel's Amish Collection is constructed from northern hardwoods, which are incredibly strong and offer stunning natural beauty. Tops, drawer fronts, and frames of all Daniel's Amish case pieces are constructed from sturdy Northern hardwoods. Sides and some larger panels are veneers over cabinet-grade Baltic Birch plywood, which is incredibly resistant to warping and splitting.
Daniels Amish is a great brand to consider if you look for the best heirloom quality furniture with a uniquely American manufacturing history and craftsmanship.
Smith Brothers has origins in furniture-making going back to 1926, and their brand is known for high-quality, solidly constructed furniture. All Smith Brothers Products are manufactured right at home in beautiful Berne, Indiana, and the company employs over 500 people to make high-quality custom furniture.
Customization doesn’t get much more detailed than with Smith Brothers. The details are up to the customer, and with Smith Brothers, those details are many. Smith Brothers manufacturers use materials like hardwood maple, steel coil springs, high-quality foam, unique textiles, and top-grain leathers in their construction.
Smith Brothers produces over 2,100 pieces of upholstery every week. The large volume of production is even more impressive when you consider the 800 fabrics and leathers available.
Smith Brother’s leathers are selected from the finest top-grain leather and made to maximize your furniture’s comfort and style.
The Smith Brothers staff selects Smith Brothers fabrics for their durability, style, and high textile quality levels. Fabric swatch options for custom chairs feature multiple patterns, colors, and textures, giving the customer many choices.
Many Smith Brothers products have customizable features, such as custom arms, custom cushions, leg style options, and skirt options for fabric upholstered sofas. The Smith Brothers catalog features over 30 frame options.
Smith Brothers is an excellent brand for anyone who wants high-quality, US-made furniture with exceptional support cushions and solid construction. With Smith Brothers, you will get Amish craftsmanship and the best quality on a piece that you can customize.
MAVIN has an American origin that dates back over three generations to the Winesburg Lumber Mill in central Ohio. Like in the past, all lumber from MAVIN products is grown and harvested locally from seedling to the final product.
MAVIN primarily manufactures dining sets and bedroom sets. Each piece is built using heritage manufacturing traditions and modern technology to give you a component that is the best of both worlds.
MAVIN tables and beds are made with solid woods with no composite materials. The extreme care in processing comes from knowing each piece of wood and its characteristics since it was a tree.
During the finishing process, MAVIN applies 22 different stains and colors to multiple wood species. The workers then carefully apply the highest quality conversion varnish in a dust-proof facility and let it cure, avoiding oven-baked finishes and providing a finish with five times more protection than competitors.
The unique finish provides a dense wear surface that protects the wood surface against many enemies (nail polish remover, oil-based paint, turpentine, alcohol, mustard, wine, solvents, and many more food items oils).
This test would destroy 95% of the furniture finishes produced in the world today, but MAVIN finishing is designed to safeguard the beauty and integrity of heirloom quality furniture.
The heritage, values, and skills combined with Winesburg’s use of technology and lean manufacturing principles produce beautifully and efficiently made pieces of furniture made in the USA and ready for you, your children, and your grandchildren to use.
When founding the company in 1997,Simon Li wanted to create the foremost leather seating company in the furniture market. The key was to bring together the best attributes and practices worldwide and combine them to create the best leather seating available.
Simon Li combines the highest level in design, comfort, and quality to deliver value that surpasses anything available up to now. The motto for excellence at Simon Li is, “quality is our responsibility.”
Simon Li frames are constructed using furniture grade laminated and solid wood members, cut with precision by CNC equipment, and fitted together similar to a jigsaw puzzle for added joint strength with corner blocks, glue, and attachments in crucial joints.
The seat suspension on all Simon Li seating has a webbing system woven into a basket weave pattern that acts like a hammock, supporting you and not rolling into anyone sitting next to you. The backs also have webbing.
The seat cores are made of 2.0 ILD high-density polyurethane foam topped with a jacket of channeled blend down, or if a pillow-top seat, a fiber-filled cushion is inserted onto the top pillow casing.
All exterior panels are encased in a thin sheet of laminated wood and then covered in bonded fiber or foam to ensure no leather cover touches raw lumber.
Simon Li prides itself on being one of only two furniture manufacturers to be a member of the Leather Working Group, an organization dedicated to developing and maintaining sustainable and appropriate environmental business practices within the leather industry.
If you are looking for the best quality in reclining and stationary seating, Simon Li offers quality, sustainability, and a commitment to excellence that even offers a limited lifetime warranty on the frame of your seating.
Now that you know what makes the best quality furniture worth investing in and what makes the top five brands at Furniture Fair special and unique, you will be better prepared to shop with knowledge and confidence.
Remember that best quality furniture is built to last, built from quality materials, and manufactured with craftsmanship and attention to detail. Keep in mind that quality brands are built to last longer and are less likely to break down after a short time.
If you are curious about investing in high-quality, heirloom furniture, consider making an appointment at Furniture Fair. Located in the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Louisville areas, we are ready to help you find your dream furniture that will last.
